Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After acceleration came into effect in 1943, many of us pushed to get through in three years "in time to save our country." Others dropped out to join the armed services or to follow husbands to military camps and naval stations, returning to finish college after...
Campus security will no doubt remain an important issue in the years ahead. We urge HUPD and the administration to follow the students' lead by taking some simple steps to keep Harvard safe...
...learn an important lesson: I was not destined to follow in Mailer's footsteps. My first serious effort at fiction was so inept that, rereading it a couple of weeks later, I burst out laughing...
Harvard--not just the administration but the entire community--needs to take preventive action. Circuses, with which this university shares much, spend more time training their acrobats than recruiting net seamstresses, and Harvard should follow their example. Changing the ethos of this place--changing the climate that leads to psychic instability--would not be easy, as it can't be a matter of committees and afternoon talk sessions. It would rather be an extended exploration of ideas considered too trite or irrelevant for our learned discourse: that the honors for which we sell our souls are Faustian purchases, that...
From here on, though, the candidates are moving into ideological territory where finessing becomes harder or where the other just can't follow. For both Clinton and Dole a big minefield is affirmative action. Last week the Administration announced new rules on government contracting that disallow all strict set-aside provisions that require specific numbers for minority contractors. But they still allow "race-conscious" procurement as long as Justice Department studies of each affected industry find credible evidence of discrimination. The rules reflect the "Mend it, don't end it" approach Clinton announced last summer--a fairly gutsy and clear...